To put it simply, as per the latest directive of the Ministry of Health Tobacco Control Cell, retailers have been barred from displaying cigarettes at all shops and will now have to keep them hidden. The same rule also means that the shopkeepers cannot market/ advertise cigarettes at the front of their shops through printed material.

Pakistan, March 5 -- Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan on Wednesday instructed to order the privatization process of the country's numerous government and state organizations The Prime Minister, who chaired a high-level meeting in Islamabad, directed the authorities concerned to strengthen cooperation between ministries in order to make it easier to privatize effectively.Imran Khan said it is in the country's best interests to privatize non-profit organizations and vacant assets. The Privatisation Division secretary briefed the Prime Minister regarding several public institutions and assets on their process of privatization.In September, the PM's Finance Adviser Abdul Hafeez Shaikh had signalled that the federal government decided to ex...